Re: Reproducible filesystem corruption in lenny

2009-07-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <97cbd1a90907291319wc4cca42r87cb799f94fe8...@mail.gmail.com>, Josh Kelley wrote: >I'm not sure the >best way to further track down the problem from here. Is there an >easy way (short of compiling my own kernel) to try out 2.6.27? Compiling your own kernel from upstream sources is not *that*

Re: Reproducible filesystem corruption in lenny

2009-07-29 Thread Josh Kelley
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Emil Pedersen wrote: > Don't know if it is at all related, but I had some usb sticks > behaving quiet strange too (on a debian etch 64bit). > > The symptons where that a file (kernel actually) that was copied > to the stick could not be run the next time the stick w

Re: Reproducible filesystem corruption in lenny

2009-07-29 Thread Emil Pedersen
--On onsdag, juli 29, 2009 09.07.16 -0400 Josh Kelley wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Owen Townend wrote: Just to be clear here: When using one of these fraudulent drives filling it up will produce no errors. Reading it back will show corruption once passed the actual size of the

Re: Reproducible filesystem corruption in lenny

2009-07-29 Thread Josh Kelley
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Owen Townend wrote: > Just to be clear here: When using one of these fraudulent drives > filling it up will produce no errors. Reading it back will show > corruption once passed the actual size of the device. > > Your comment didn't mention whether you were able to

Re: Reproducible filesystem corruption in lenny

2009-07-28 Thread Owen Townend
2009/7/29 Josh Kelley : > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: [snip] >> There had been cases of USB memory sticks with manipulated controllers >> produced by fraudulent manufacturers.  These sticks reported a higher >> capacity than they really had.  They never reported read or wr

Re: Reproducible filesystem corruption in lenny

2009-07-28 Thread Josh Kelley
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-07-28 15:42 +0200, Josh Kelley wrote: >> Turning off has_journal or adding -o data=journal fixes the >> immediately preceding problem.  (I haven't tested it for our cloning >> procedure.)  However, I don't want to go back to ext2, and

Re: Reproducible filesystem corruption in lenny

2009-07-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-07-28 15:42 +0200, Josh Kelley wrote: > We use Debian for some embedded devices that use off-the-shelf flash > drives for their primary storage. Since upgrading from etch to lenny > and tweaking our partition layout, we've started seeing filesystem > corruption occur very rapidly after we